Inside Tolkien's The Hobbit (2003)

Documentary. I'm a very well-read Tolkien scholar but it is priceless to see on video the grown children of Tolkien, publisher of Tolkien, and Tolkien himself speaking about the roots of his literary works esp. in the literal context of his stomping grounds at Oxford and Sarehole. An interview with the Brothers Hildebrand, celebrated early illustrators of Tolkien's Middle-Earth, accompanies this hour-long production of biographical information that is wholly spot-on accurate. Three stars.